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That's wonderful and I took your suggestion to use that as a destop. It looks far better than the 5" of heavy wet snow that fell here last night.
I just learned about Hanami this year. Our local brewing company is making a spring seasonal ale called Hanami, and they brought it to a Slow Food meeting and explained the inspiration. Lovely idea.
When I was a kid we studied Japan in grade school (I've been in love with sushi since the 3rd grade). I remember learning a song about cherry trees... sakura - sakura - ye no yo shi ya ha ma
I really don't know how to spell any of it except sakura, so my apologies. Then we runined it by playing it together on our recorders.
Thanks! A couple weeks ago, the cherry blossoms in waterfront park here in Portland bloomed. I went to photograph them, and unsurprisingly, discovered a lot of Japanese people there enjoying them.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
photo by ethylene
